- present participle of extract.
extracting
Example Sentences
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And if Mourinho has proven himself capable of one thing, it’s extracting commitment from his team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
While its emissions are lower, drilling and extracting it causes the leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and the main component of natural gas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Rather than manually extracting proteins and peptides from tissues and then using methods such as mass spectrometry to identify huge numbers of molecules, the researchers created a computer algorithm called Peptide Predictor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
In June, Anthropic accused Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba of "illicitly" extracting the capabilities of its Claude AI models using distillation attacks.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
One therefore has to make simplifying assumptions and approximations—and even then, the problem of extracting predictions remains a formidable one.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
